Farm and Dairy: Bird flu outbreak enters second year in Pennsylvania
Link - Since the first positive case of HPAI in Pennsylvania, more than 4.6 million birds have been killed as a result of the bird flu.
RFD-TV: Farm groups want Congress to reverse increasing H-2A labor costs
Link - Groups like the Ag Workforce Coalition want lawmakers to support resolutions to the Congressional Review Act, which would disapprove of the methods used to calculate the adverse effect wage rate.
ABC News: Why parts of America are 'certainly in a water crisis' and what can be done about it
Link - As pollution, engineering, population growth and climate change pose challenges to freshwater quality and quantity in America, the safety and amount of water in parts of the U.S. is in question.
USA Today: 18,000 cows killed in explosion, fire at Texas dairy farm may be largest cattle killing ever
Link - After subduing the fire at the west Texas dairy farm Monday evening, officials were stunned at the scale of livestock death left behind: 18,000 head of cattle perished in the fire at the South Fork Dairy farm near Dimmitt, Texas – or about 20% of the cattle slaughtered in America on any given day.
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